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πρεσβύτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρεσβύτερος

Structure: πρεσβυτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. older of two people
  2. advanced in life, senior
  3. a term of rank or office, a member of the Jewish Sanhedrin
  4. in the New Testament, a group that presided over the assemblies or congregations

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀπεκρίθη δὲ Λάβαν. οὐκ ἔστιν οὕτωσ ἐν τῷ τόπῳ ἡμῶν, δοῦναι τὴν νεωτέραν πρὶν ἢ τὴν πρεσβυτέραν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 29:26)
  • ε καὶ Σουσακὶμ ἔδωκε τῷ Ἱεροβοὰμ τὴν Ἀνώ, ἀδελφὴν Θεκεμίνασ τὴν πρεσβυτέραν τῆσ γυναικὸσ αὐτοῦ αὐτῷ εἰσ γυναῖκα. αὕτη ἦν μεγάλη ἐν μέσῳ τῶν θυγατέρων τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ ἔτεκε τῷ Ἱεροβοὰμ τὸν Ἀβιὰ υἱὸν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 12:29)
  • εἴθ’ ἐξῆν παρὰ τῇ νέᾳ καθεύδειν, καὶ μὴ δ’ει πρότερον διασποδῆσαι ἀνάσιμον ἢ πρεσβυτέραν· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, strophe1)
  • τὴν δὲ τῷ Διονυσίῳ παρατεθεῖσαν πρεσβυτέραν οὖσαν εἰδέναι πάντα σαφῶσ ἃ βούλεται μαθεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 11 2:2)
  • καὶ ὃσ θεασάμενοσ ἔκρινε τὴν πρεσβυτέραν ἧσ καὶ εἰσ ἔρωτα ἐμπεσὼν ἐλθὼν εἰσ ἄστυ κλινήρησ γίνεται καὶ διηγεῖται τὰ γεγενημένα τῷ ἀδελφῷ ἑαυτοῦ ὄντι νεωτέρῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 80 1:5)

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